"Christmas in Fallujah" is a

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written by

Billy Joel William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, pianist and songwriter. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man (song), Piano Man" after his album and signature song of the same name, he has led a commercially successful career as a solo ...

and performed by

Cass Dillon Cass Dillon (May 3, 1986) is a singer-songwriter from Long Island, New York, whose first release is a song written by Billy Joel titled "Christmas in Fallujah". Career Dillon's first major release was written by Billy Joel and titled "Christmas i ...

. A couple of weeks after they recorded it in a studio, Billy Joel introduced Cass Dillon on stage, in Chicago, for a first live performance of the song. It is also Billy Joel's second new song of original material with lyrics he had written since 1993's '' River of Dreams''. The single was released on December 4, 2007 exclusively from the iTunes Store and was included on Dillon's EP ''A Good Thing Never Dies'' (iTunes download). The proceeds from this single were donated to Homes for Our Troops, a nonprofit organization that builds specially adapted homes for American service members returning from Iraq (

Fallujah Fallujah ( ar, ٱلْفَلُّوجَة, al-Fallūjah, Iraqi pronunciation: ) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important Jew ...

is a city in Iraq) and Afghanistan with severe

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. "Christmas in Fallujah" was the second single released in 2007 by Joel, who aside from " All My Life" had not released a song with lyrics since 1993. Joel performed "Christmas in Fallujah" live in

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in November 2008, marking the first time he sang the lyrics to the song instead of Dillon. On December 11, 2008, Joel announced that a new recording of the song that day at Sydney's Acer Arena concert would be released as a download and CD single in honor of the American and Australian soldiers serving in the Middle East. This is the only official recording of Joel singing "Christmas in Fallujah" that is available.

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Homes for Our Troops
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